Re: a comment on Bagni di Lucca by Sasha	8-Nov-06/10:59 AM
Because, in comparison with this: http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=130209 this: http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=103199 and this: http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=101876 it's an eight.
Re: Bagni di Lucca by Sasha	6-Nov-06/9:46 AM
I'll trust you to have got the translation right. Is this a form of sonnet?
Re: a comment on Rare Oul' Times in the County Wicklow by Edna Sweetlove	4-Nov-06/8:43 AM
Edna only posts the racist remarks as bait - the way Dark Angel used to, but without the style, wit, humour and intellect. Hence why you guys are the barbarians and the Iraqis are all adorable, childlike rogues.
Re: For Elizabeth, Wherever She May Be by wilco	4-Nov-06/8:28 AM
Reads well, sounds better :-)
Re: a comment on Monsters by wilco	4-Nov-06/8:27 AM
For ages your music player on myspace didn't work - it finally did yesterday :-D It sounds awesome! I don't suppose you're likely to play over here, are you?
Re: The Hunter, the Hunted, and the Bystander by Dovina	3-Nov-06/9:51 AM
Nicely iambic for the most part. Is this from a film?
Re: a comment on The Hunter, the Hunted, and the Bystander by Dovina	3-Nov-06/9:50 AM
All Poetry is like this place, but with fewer genuine critiques and with more exclamation marks. I can't log in to Eratosphere at the moment though :(
Re: a comment on Rare Oul' Times in the County Wicklow by Edna Sweetlove	3-Nov-06/9:42 AM
Maybe 'eating cucumber sandwiches' would have been a more apt stereotype.
Re: a comment on Rare Oul' Times in the County Wicklow by Edna Sweetlove	3-Nov-06/9:41 AM
I doubt it. Why would anyone want to invade this country? Even Hitler didn't want it. The only way we'll be invaded is through mass immigration - which, okay, is happening now - but I don't think is quite what you mean. In any case, the only group who seems to have any interest in actually taking over this place is the Muslim sect - and Jack Straw knows what happens when you get a large number of Muslims in your constituency. You never know, the BNP might one day throw up a leader with enough credibility to make it. That'll be interesting.
Re: a comment on The Perigenetic Prayer by ALChemy	1-Nov-06/2:25 AM
You see, I wouldn't mind that much even if you were anti-English, as I'm pretty sure that you would have some sort of thought behind it. As opposed to Edna who seems to have absorbed all the political nous that comes from using The Sun as toilet paper. In any case, we're not exactly the most credible nation at the moment. And I don't see it changing in the near future :-(
Re: a comment on The Perigenetic Prayer by ALChemy	1-Nov-06/2:20 AM
"It" is probably accurate enough.
Re: a comment on "Twee" by Ranger	1-Nov-06/1:39 AM
She can have my bollocks too. After all, the foundation of traditional marriage is 'what's mine is yours'.
Re: a comment on Rare Oul' Times in the County Wicklow by Edna Sweetlove	1-Nov-06/1:35 AM
That's some nice editing! My grammar is lovely. When she was younger she could sing all twenty-three verses of 'Hooplah, Hooplah, Where's My Fucking Hooplah?' while making Sunday roast for an entire workhouse's population of orphans. Of course, in those days the rationing system didn't extend to orphans, miscreants, tramps or other undesirables so they had to roast an orphan every week. Occasionally they'd get lucky and a German pilot would come crashing down, screaming and burning in the wreckage. Those Germans are so full of chocolate and bratwurst they can feed an entire plantation's worth of GCSE-mentality controversial poets, can't they? With ketchup!!!!!!!11 LOL!!!!!!11111oneoneoneoneonehundredandone!!! She never got her Hooplah.
Re: Still by half.italian	31-Oct-06/6:40 AM
It's really scattered - more a collection of half-connected thoughts. I guess maybe that's what you're aiming at; if so they're a bit too independently crisp and sharp to be dreamy thoughts.
Re: a comment on The Perigenetic Prayer by ALChemy	31-Oct-06/6:36 AM
More predictable turd -0-
Re: a comment on Rare Oul' Times in the County Wicklow by Edna Sweetlove	30-Oct-06/2:33 AM
You are the only thing in the world that makes me wish I wasn't English. Anything to avoid being associated with you. "O 'Neill"? What the fuck? Where in the world is there a name like that? "O'X" means "of X". Would you ever say "Three O 'Clock"? What is a 'clock? Are you releasing all your pent-up testosterone that can't be unleashed under the stern eyes of those All Poetry moderators, or do you genuinely think you're hilarious? Either way, every comment you've ever made has now been reduced to utter buncombe. -bow'ls-
Re: Suburban Spleen by Sasha	30-Oct-06/2:19 AM
Excellent - I've missed your villanelles. Typo line 14 - 'unconscious'. Your refrains are extremely well-worked here and keep a constant flow, which isn't easy in a vil. I also quite like the occasional extra rhyme ('on', 'pawn'). It's almost contradictory though, the bleakness contained within such a beautiful form. It seems to demand a certain eloquence of language which undermines all the boredom represented. 'With the nuisance of a ray' is the best line here.
Re: a comment on The Pit’s Bottom by Dovina	27-Oct-06/10:10 AM
Ha! Everlasting Godstopper, that's brilliant -10- Jesus was a lesbian?
Re: a comment on The Pit’s Bottom by Dovina	27-Oct-06/4:35 AM
Well what can I say?
Re: Consider this by MacFrantic	27-Oct-06/4:33 AM
Now choose...the red pill - or the blue pill...